Labour and Global Mobility Solutions

Our labour, social security and immigration professionals support and advise global clients on any issues related to the labour affairs, social security compliance requirements and cross border mobility of human resources of their enterprises.

We focus on providing our services while maintaining a practical approach, customized to the client's needs by exploiting also the benefit of our close cooperation with the Private Clients and HR Advisory teams of PwC.

Our range of services includes:

Legal planning and assistance in the implementation process in cases of transfer of personnel arising from any kind of corporate / business restructurings and asset/share deals (e.g. transfer of business, mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, etc.), both from a domestic and cross border dimension;

Drafting of Collective Employment Agreements and Internal Working Regulations;

Planning and implementation of Voluntary Exit Plans;

Day-to-day legal support and advice to employers worldwide on a wide range of queries in order to ensure their compliance on all aspects of Greek labour, social security and immigration legislation;

Performance of full scope employment due diligence;

Assistance from an employment, social security and immigration law perspective on issues related to employers establishing and organizing a presence in Greece;

Assistance to individuals seeking to acquire property in Greece under the “golden visa” program.

Our portfolio of recent projects includes:

Provision of advice and implementation of a transfer of personnel due to the partial demerger of the Greek affiliate of a global leader in the production of health, hygiene and home products;

Assistance in the structuring and preparation of an Entrepreneurial Collective Employment Agreement and review of the Internal Working Regulation for top tier clients pursuing an activity in the tobacco and energy industries;

Assistance in the planning and implementation of the Greek part of a global HR restructuring for a client operating in the tobacco industry;

Advice and support to the Greek branch of a major EU financial institution in all aspects of local labour and social security law;

Labour due diligence on behalf of a potential investor of a large manufacturing company under a special liquidation regime for public interest companies;

Advice on the establishment of an Occupational Retirement Scheme for a major Greek listed group

Advice to a major Greek listed group on re-designing an Entepreneurial Collective Employment Agreement